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to space. Infinitude holds kingdoms, great and small,-- Worlds upon worlds, redeemed and glorified, And peopled with the children of our God, Who also have evolved from lower things. What opening visions here for knowledge rare! What sciences, what laws, what history! What stories of God's love in other worlds! Exhaustless themes for poets' sweetest songs; For painters, sculptors, every science, art Has never-ending fields of pure delight. To them "the universe its incense brings"-- Distilled from all the sweetness of the spheres.
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Earth's loveliest flow'r, the love 'tween man and wife, Transplanted is to this most holy sphere. Through all the toiling years of earth-life, it Had grown; and now, instead of dying with The mortal death, its roots are firmly fixed In the eternal soil of Glory-land. And blessed man! now at his side there stands A woman, one of heaven's queens, a wife, A mother to his children of the Earth, And yet to be a mother of a race. Her beauty rare surpasses power of words. Her purity, her sweetly gentle ways Rest as a crown of glory on her brow. Her love transcendent fills his heart with joy, And now he fully realizes that "The woman is the glory of the man."
Here in thy Home, O Woman all divine, Thy measure of creation thou doest fill! Intelligences come from out the womb Of Time, into thine own; thence are they born With spirit bodies, to thy loving care. Now thou art Mother, and doest know in full A mother's joy--a joy untinged by pain, And with thy Husband thou hast now become Creator, fellow worker with thy Lord. Celestial Father, Mother at the head Of parentage they stand, the perfect type Of that eternal principle of sex Found in all nature, making possible For every living thing to multiply And bring increase of being of its kind. In this celestial world, the fittest have Survived. To them alone the pow'r is given To propagate their kind. 'Twas wisely planned. The race of Gods must not deteriorate. Thus everlasting increase is denied To those who have not rea